Telangana CM urges junior doctors to call off strike amid Covid
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Wed, May 26 2021 19:33 IST |
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Hyderabad, May 26 : Medical services in government-run hospitals in Telangana were affected as junior doctors on Wednesday launched an indefinite strike to press for their demands while Chief Minister K. Chandrasekhar Rao appealed to them to immediately call off their protest.
Junior doctors began boycotting Covid-19 and non-Covid-19 elective duties at government teaching and allied hospitals across the state from Wednesday.
Alleging that there is no response to their demands from the government, they threatened to boycott even emergency duties from Thursday.
3100 junior doctors and senior residents to boycott COVID and non-COVID elective duties
Some 3,100 junior doctors and senior resident doctors would boycott COVID and non-COVID elective duties at Telangana government teaching and allied hospitals from 9 a.m. of Wednesday as their demands were not addressed, including State government’s ex-gratia for health care workers (HCWs) who lost life in line of duty.
Representatives of Telangana Junior Doctors Association (TJUDA), and Telangana Senior Resident Doctors Association (TSRDA) announced the decision to media on Tuesday.
The medical services which do not need emergency attention are called as elective duties such as Out-Patient services, treatment for closed fractures. They would continue to attend COVID ICU and critical care duties, and non-COVID emergencies.
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